NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A sizable percentage of low-income patients in primary care may be particularly sensitive to chemicals in household cleaners, perfumes and other everyday products, a small study suggests. The study, done at two Texas family medicine practices, screened patients for symptoms of "chemical intolerance," also known as multiple chemical sensitivity. It's a controversial diagnosis, and there's no agreement on the cause - or that it even should be...

Conchita Wurst came home to a heroine's welcome in Austria on Sunday after the bearded drag queen won the Eurovision Song Contest in what she called a victory over the forces of intolerance, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Sporting high heels, a tight dress, butterfly eyelashes and a full beard, Wurst--whose birth name is Tom Neuwirth--swept to victory with her "Rise Like a Phoenix" ballad before a global TV audience of about 180 million people in 45...

Regarding your April 15 editorial saying that the Boy Scouts "ought to rethink their ban on gays": I agree completely. And while they're at it, the Boy Scouts of America should also drop the ban on atheists. As you pointed out, intolerance of different sexual and religious preferences is inconsistent with the BSA's goal of "helping to instill values in young people." The United Way, which gives financial support to the Boy Scouts, should also think about these issues. Because of these intolerant...

Somebody design the T-shirts. Somebody ready the bumper stickers. Boycott Arizona. Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed Wednesday a bill passed by the state legislature that would allow businesses to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds. But remember, this is the state that resisted the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for six years. The one that outlawed ethnic studies classes. The one where state lawmakers tried to redefine U.S. citizenship to snub so-called...

The "great heroines of our time" are not singularly those "homemaking wives" as suggested by Richard Walsh (Voice, Feb. 19). To suggest that Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, doesn`t know who she is because she is richly diverse both personally and professionally, illustrates just what is wrong with society today: ignorant intolerance! Mr. Walsh would surely love it if women would keep in their place as the servile domestics of his dreams. Fortunately, however, for...

Boycott Arizona. Somebody design the T-shirts. Somebody ready the bumper stickers. Boycott Arizona. Gov. Jan Brewer has not said at this writing whether she will veto a bill passed by the state legislature that would allow businesses to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds. Maybe she'll do the right thing. Maybe we should be ready in case she does not. After all, this is the state that resisted the Martin Luther King holiday for six years. The one that outlawed ethnic studies classes.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Even a ban from international soccer may not prove enough to rid Serbia of its perennial problems with racism and hooliganism, such is the deep-rooted intolerance among fans. England's Danny Rose said he was racially abused by supporters in the Serbian city of Krusevac during Tuesday's European Under-21 Championship qualifier, which ended in an on-pitch brawl after England won 2-0 on aggregate to reach next year's finals. "Unfortunately,...

The official presidential delegation to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics the White House announced this week sends just the right message. Intolerance is not acceptable. If the decision to have neither President Barack Obama nor first lady Michelle Obama, nor Vice President Joe Biden nor any cabinet member attend the 2014 Winter Games also is meant to be a slap in the faces of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and the International Olympic Committee, they are getting...

Conchita Wurst came home to a heroine's welcome in Austria on Sunday after the bearded drag queen won the Eurovision Song Contest in what she called a victory over the forces of intolerance, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Sporting high heels, a tight dress, butterfly eyelashes and a full beard, Wurst--whose birth name is Tom Neuwirth--swept to victory with her "Rise Like a Phoenix" ballad before a global TV audience of about 180 million people in 45...

Film critic Pauline Kael called it perhaps the greatest movie--and greatest movie folly--ever made. Its director is regarded by many as the screen's greatest innovator. "Citizen Kane" and Orson Welles? Good guesses, but incorrect. The key hint is "folly." There have been many flawed masterpieces in film history, but few can rival the vision, craft and influence of D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance." This seldom-exhibited 1916 film will be shown at the Film Center of the Art...

Back this month in a meticulous digital restoration, on a screen large enough to handle its variously color-tinted insanities, the silent landmark "Intolerance" is everything a movie can be. It's grand, grandiose, ambitious to the point of absurdity, sluggish here, propulsive there, and then finally so propulsive resistance is futile. The project was deeply personal to its maker, D.W. Griffith, who made his so-called "Sun Play of the Ages," this "drama...

By John Gregory Brown. John Gregory Brown is the author of the novels "Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery" and "The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur." | July 8, 2001

Secret Love By Bart Schneider Viking, 275 pages, $25.95 In the middle of this second novel by Bart Schneider, there's a brief cameo by the central character from his first. Ronnie Reboulet, the dashing, drug-addicted jazz trumpeter of Schneider's "Blue Bossa," is performing at a San Francisco club where middle-age Jewish lawyer and civil rights agitator Jake Roseman and his young, light-skinned black girlfriend Nisa have stepped in for a drink. The characters sit down together during the...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My one-year-old son was diagnosed with a milk allergy, but he is not lactose intolerant. How are the two different? ANSWER: Although they may seem similar, being allergic to milk and being lactose intolerant are two unrelated medical conditions. A milk allergy involves the body's response to a protein found in milk. Lactose intolerance involves a carbohydrate found in dairy products. Foods are made up of protein, carbohydrate and fat....

By William Raspberry, (copyright) 1992, Washington Post Writers Group | December 28, 1992

Can there be such a thing as too much freedom of speech? I`ve been thinking about the question since a recent visit to Georgetown University and Prof. Clair Carey's class on "the human condition." The students had been reading Marcuse's "A Critique of Pure Tolerance" and were wondering whether tolerance can be overdone. Of course it can, I told them, and we soon moved on to other things. But the question won`t go away. It's easy enough to be tolerant...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called the findings in a government report about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny intolerable and said he has directed his administration to hold those responsible for the agency's actions accountable. "The report's findings are intolerable and inexcusable," Obama said in a statement on the Treasury Department's investigation. "The IRS must apply the law in a fair...

More than 75 years after its world premiere left audiences amazed and baffled, D.W. Griffith's epic film "Intolerance" will be shown in Chicago this weekend in the form and style its creator had originally intended. The reconstructed movie, the result of nine years of research and detective work by the Museum of Modern Art, or MOMA, in New York, will be presented twice, at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the University of Chicago's Max Palevsky Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. Each screening will last about...

* Pope says Church cannot change to suit public opinion * Ageing pontiff promotes his private secretary to powerful rank * Italy PM Mario Monti attends ceremony in St Peter's Basilica By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Sunday that Roman Catholic leaders must have the courage to stand up to attacks by "intolerant agnosticism" prevalent in many countries. The pope and the Church have come under...